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FORUM: Saxe and the City (Summer 2024)

October 15th, 2024 · Comments Off on FORUM: Saxe and the City (Summer 2024)

Don’t miss my conversation with the new heads of the festival on my new podcast, Saxe and the City!

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Tags: Annex · Opinion

FORUM: The heat is on (Summer 2024)

October 15th, 2024 · Comments Off on FORUM: The heat is on (Summer 2024)

This year has been a defining moment in our global climate crisis because the devastating and life-threatening impacts of climate change have arrived in Canada. It’s no longer an inconvenience that affects someone else; it affects us.

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Tags: Annex · Opinion

GREENINGS: Paris can do it, why can’t we? (Summer 2024)

October 15th, 2024 · Comments Off on GREENINGS: Paris can do it, why can’t we? (Summer 2024)

In a move sure to enrage car manufacturers, the parking fees for oversized murder machines such as SUVs have tripled. Torontonians can only salivate at the idea of removing 50,000 parking spots. The concessions we give to car drivers are unbelievable in this city. 

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Tags: Annex · Life

SPORTS: Baseball feels the chill at Christie Pits (Summer 2024)

October 15th, 2024 · Comments Off on SPORTS: Baseball feels the chill at Christie Pits (Summer 2024)

While Roudbari introduces the contest and seeks out a volunteer to participate, Carvalho ducks into the Leafs’ clubhouse like Clark Kent into a phone booth. Moments later, the figure that emerges is no longer Carvalho, but the Freeze

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Tags: Annex · Sports

ON THE COVER (June 2024)

July 19th, 2024 · Comments Off on ON THE COVER (June 2024)

READ MORE: CHATTER: The Bloor-Borden farmers’ market is back! (June 2024) ON THE COVER: University community stops to remember (Nov. 2015) ARTS: Rubin Hurricane Carter’s new book missing Toronto chapter (Feb. 2011)

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Tags: Annex · On the cover

NEWS: Screen now dark at the Hot Docs Cinema (June 2024)

July 19th, 2024 · Comments Off on NEWS: Screen now dark at the Hot Docs Cinema (June 2024)

In a statement released to the community via their website on April 6 the Hot Docs board of directors reported that, “When issues were raised by the programming team at the end of January, Hot Docs and the board acted in accordance with these policies and procedures, including conducting a thorough internal investigation, with all due diligence and speed to address their concerns. 

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Tags: Annex · News

FORUM: A primer on changes to the capital tax (June 2024)

July 19th, 2024 · Comments Off on FORUM: A primer on changes to the capital tax (June 2024)

Finance Minister interprets tax changes made in recent budget By Chrystia Freeland If we were creating our tax system from scratch, what choices would we make as Canadians? Would we give the greatest tax advantages to those who make the most money? Or would we insist on each of us paying our fair share to […]

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Tags: Annex · Opinion

CHATTER: The Bloor-Borden farmers’ market is back! (June 2024)

July 19th, 2024 · Comments Off on CHATTER: The Bloor-Borden farmers’ market is back! (June 2024)

nother year. Helen, the market matriarch, can be found at the volunteer table virtually every Wednesday from 3 – 7 p.m. making sure that the market runs smoothly and answering questions from new and old shoppers.

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Tags: Annex · News

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (June 2024)

July 19th, 2024 · Comments Off on LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (June 2024)

RE: “Lane name pays tribute to a mare named Crestfallen” (May 2024) My mother survived the two World Wars and the Great Depression (I’m pretty old, myself!).  Amongst her stories there’s one I’ve never forgotten; the acute pain she suffered as a child with diphtheria. That’s one reason I’ve been so glad my own children […]

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Tags: Annex · Letters · Opinion

SPORTS: Maple Leaf Mystique thrills Pits (June 2024)

July 19th, 2024 · Comments Off on SPORTS: Maple Leaf Mystique thrills Pits (June 2024)

After a sluggish start, the 0-4 Leafs hosted the 0-3 Kitchener Panthers. At stake was a chance for one club to reset its season with a win.

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Tags: Annex · Sports · Columns · Maple Leafs Baseball

EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (June 2024)

July 19th, 2024 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (June 2024)

Corner sore SEE MORE EDITORIAL CARTOONS: EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (May 2024) EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice: NIMBYism 101 (Apr. 2024) EDITORIAL CARTOON: Why can’t they get along??? (Mar. 2024) EDITORIAL CARTOON: How to drive in Toronto (Feb. 2024) EDITORIAL CARTON: “Someone’s getting rich!” (Dec. 2023) EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Fall 2023) EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Summer 2023) EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (May/June 2023) EDITORIAL CARTOON: How nice (April 2023) EDITORIAL CARTOON: Scale […]

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Tags: Annex · Arts · Opinion

ON THE COVER (May 2024)

June 14th, 2024 · Comments Off on ON THE COVER (May 2024)

Justin Marra slides home to score a run for the Toronto Maple Leafs at Christie Pits on May 12. The Leafs dropped their Intercounty Baseball League home opener to the London Majors, 7-5. COURTESY CRAIG AIKEN

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Tags: Annex · News · On the cover